Bible Verses About The Providence of God: The wicked made to promote the designs

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he thus fulfilled.